Imagine

   UGH! I hate being SICK.  I cannot believe I have this terrible cold. I don't know whether to be grateful that I wasn't sick over the holiday again and my time off, or irritated that now that I have to be at work full steam, I'm sick.  Hmmm.  All I know is, I'm a baby about being sick.  When I don't feel good I just want to sleep and be left alone.  I'm fortunate, my husband does a good job of taking care of me.  He allows me to sleep and offers to get me anything I need.  The dogs are not so understanding; they still love "mom" and want me to  let them out, feed them, and hug them. 
     I know in this world we will have illness, pain, and tears.  I anxiously await our entrance to heaven when we get a new body, one that does not get tired or sick. To live in a place of pure joy and love.  No viruses, no bacteria, none of those things that make us feel horrible!  They will banished forever.  Woohoo!
     You know what else will be great? No crying! I know a good cry can be cleansing, Lord knows I've done it enough, but can you imagine a time and a place where the need for crying will be abolished?  I love to imagine it....

New Beginnings

     A new year has arrived.  A chance for new beginnings for so many people.  New lifestyles; new eating habits, new exercise plans, new work ethics.  Generally, for most, it lasts about 3 weeks?  A month?
     What if we looked at each day as a new beginning.  Every morning, what if we awoke and said, "Thank you, Lord, for this day!  Let me be the best I can be for today."  I think by making small, reachable goals we stand a much better chance of actually changing (for the better, I hope).  Heck, I have to take some things hour by hour let alone day by day.  (Oh, this curse of loving sweets and despising exercise!) 
     I pray I can make the appropriate changes in my life.  Changes that will be pleasing to God, it is all I can ask. 

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever"

~ Hebrews 13:8, NLT

 Happy New Year to all.